ABOUT PROJECT: European citizenship is an unprecedented project in the making. But it is not simply about status and rights. There is a dynamic element too: citizens, third country nationals, refugees, illegal aliens and states enact claims to citizenship. This major new research programme asks: how do acts shape our ideas of subjects of citizenship, and the very idea of citizenship itself? Acts that articulate claims to citizenship (and produce claimants) create new sites of belonging and identification. These differ from traditional, and still important, sites of citizenship such as voting, social security, and military obligation. Acts of citizenship stretch across boundaries. They also produce new subjects and scales of citizenship. By investigating acts we expand the focus from what people say (opinions, perceptions, attitudes) to what people do – an important supplement, and sometimes a corrective, to a conventional focus on what people or authorities (EU as well as national courts, agencies, organisations) say about European citizenship and identification.

ABOUT WEBSITE: ENACT website provides information about the progress of the project and its work packages (projects conducted by its partners). You can find this information in BLOGS sections. It provides snippets of news that are relevant from the point of view of the project in NEWS section. It also provides a listing of events where issues pertaining to European citizenship are debated. You can find this in EVENTS section. If you are looking for a searchable database of references that we find useful for the project you can find it in LIBRARY section. If you want to participate in ongoing discussion we invite you to visit FORUMS section. If you are interested in making further contributions to the website and get involved in the project please contact us.